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Family Chironomidae Macquart 1838 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Synonyms: Protobibionidae Rohdendorf 1946, Tendipedidae, Tendipedinae

Parent taxon: Chironomoidea according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007

See also Carpenter 1992, Dendy and Sublette 1959, Kalugina 1985, Kalugina 1986, Kieffer 1911, Pape et al. 2011, Statz 1944, Vera et al. 2023 and Zhang 1989

Sister taxa: Anisinodus, Ceratopogonidae

Subtaxa: Aenneinae Aphroteniinae Buchonomyiinae Calopsectra Chironominae Chironomopsis Coelochironoma Corynocera Cretodiamesinae Cricotopiella Diamesinae Dicrotendipes Eurycnemus Haematotanypus Huabeitendipes Jentzschiella Jurochlus Langtonius Liauningius Libanochlites Manlayamyia Mogsonomus Nomochirus Orthocladiinae Orusa Pelopia Pelopiina Podonominae Polypedilum Prodiamesinae Protobibio Sendelia Sergentia Sinoryctochlus Stictochironomus Tanypodinae Tendipopsis Tinactum Ulaiinae Ulaimailia Ulaimailonia Ulaimailoniella Viduata

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Type: Chironomus

Ecology:

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